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Extracts from the recently-released book 'Cricket Conflicts and Controversies', written by Kersi Meher-Homji... Mumbai A Correspondent http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2013/may/280513-ipl-controversies-before-spot-fixing.htm ...

Kolkata, May 26 : The multi-billion-dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) that started with a bang in 2008 with the promise of changing the paradigm of sports entertainment in the country, looks gloomy today with controversies, including the ...

MAY: A TV channel telecasts a sting in which five players — TP Sudhindra of Deccan Chargers, Shalabh Srivastava and Amit Yadav of Kings XI Punjab, Mohnish Mishra of Pune Warriors and Abhinav Bali (who had no contract yet) alleged to

Calls have been made for the removal of "the most powerful man in world cricket" after his son-in-law was arrested for spot-fixing just before his team, the Chennai Super Kings, were to play in the Twenty20 Indian Premier League final. A top ...

The owners of the Chennai Super Kings tried to downplay the role of a prominent cricket official today after he was summoned by police in Mumbai for questioning in an ongoing spot-fixing scandal. Gurunath Meiyappan, who is the son-in-law of Board of ...

BCCI has never caught a cheating player on its own initiative in the past 25 years Pakistan cricketer Salman Butt, alongwith Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, was handed a jail sentence for spot-fixing in 2011. Cricket has been haunted by fixing ...

India test cricketer Shantakumaran Sreesanth has denied spot-fixing after being arrested in a scandal in a domestic Twenty20 league, while he and two teammates from his Rajasthan-based team remain in police custody. "I'm innocent and have done no ...

The enquiry committee of the BCCI has arrived on the scene looking as dim as a hound dog without teeth. The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the BCCI never took its brief seriously and now that Indian cricket finds itself in this disgraceful mess, the ...

CHENNAI, May 19(Agencies): The Indian cricket board will decide whether to ban the three players accused and arrested for spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) only after a report by its disciplinary committee. Everybody is innocent unless ...